Spiral Offering Bowl

These types of spiral dishes, called coiled bowls, were some of the earliest types of bowls made. This craft is so easy you can make it with your children, allowing you to have a discussion about Imbolc, the spiral, and what it means to be a Pagan or a witch.

Materials:

• White air-dry clay
• Optional: gesso, acrylic paints

Tool:

A small cup of water

Cost: $5–$20

Time spent: 20 minutes to make the spiral offering bowl, and 24 hours

for it to dry

Instructions: 

1. Create sacred space to work in according to your path.
2. Take a ball of air-dry clay about the size of your fist. Roll the ball between your hands, shaping it into a long tube resembling a spaghetti noodle or a worm. Make the tube about ¼ inch thick. 
3. Starting from one end, begin to roll the tube up into a spiral shape. Continue to roll until you’ve reached the other end. If cracks form in the clay, wet your finger with some water to smooth them out.
4. As you are spiraling, curve up, making the walls of the bowl. You can use a wet finger to help “glue” the clay together as you spiral it up.
5. Set the bowl to the side where it can dry and give it at least twenty-four hours to dry thoroughly. Once it has dried, if you want to paint your bowl, 
6. start with a thin coat of gesso paint. This seals the clay so that the acrylic paints don’t soak into it and weaken your work. 
7. Let the gesso dry and then paint it with the acrylics. Choose colors like yellow, green, or brown, which are associated with Imbolc.